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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Interesting paper, thank you for sharing it. You may have heard already that there is a US$5B hydrogen manufacturing project being developed in Saudi Arabia, with NH₃ being produced for export. It’s a joint venture of Acwa Power (the largest Saudi IPP and also a leading solar EPC in the Mideast) and Air Products. (1<sup>st</sup> attachment)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I also recently found (through reading Wikipedia articles <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span>) that there is a commercially operating H₂ salt dome cavern storage facility and H₂ pipeline serving the refinery network in Texas to supplement and back up the H₂ being produced onsite at those refineries. (2<sup>nd</sup> attachment)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#0000CC'>Russ Jones </span></b> <span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#DEA900'>☼</span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#0033CC'> </span></b> <b><span style='color:#0000CC'>Jones Solar Engineering</span><span style='color:#002060'> </span></b> <span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#DEA900'>☼</span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#0033CC'> </span></b> <span style='color:#0000CC'>+1-714-206-2556 (m)</span> <span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#DEA900'>☼</span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#0033CC'> </span></b><span style='color:#0000CC'>+1-310-469-9045 (VOIP worldwide)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> ldes-technology <ldes-technology-bounces@lists.ucmerced.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kittner, Noah<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 14, 2020 4:36 PM<br><b>To:</b> ldes-technology@lists.ucmerced.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [LDES-technology] Hydrogen trade ?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I found the concept and results of this new paper interesting because it suggest solar in the Atacama desert could deliver hydrogen by 2025 at 1.7-1.9 USD/kg and export it to Japan, at a lower cost than local hydrogen from wind in Japan – which highlights another aspect of hydrogen that hasn’t been discussed often – that hydrogen could take advantage of different trading networks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>However at the same time the transport cost would be a large unknown and potential barrier to seeing this through – as the cost of hydrogen could double. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyway, one aspect to consider for our group is that hydrogen could serve as long duration storage and could be produced in CA or outside CA. I just hadn’t seen other papers do this kind of analysis for hydrogen.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Noah<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>